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A little reflection daily about my language acquisition

Thursday 2 September 2021

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 I've been amused by discovering words for things that the Maori of the past would not have encountered.  Words like waea puukoro (cell phone), paa taawhanawhana (bouncy castle), paahiketepaoro (basketball), and pouaka whakaata (television).

But then I realized that these words had to have been created in English as well!

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